The Beginning of Understanding

[Some are old at the top and some are young at the bottom. It is difficult to guarantee the number of updates during the Chinese New Year. I hope everyone will understand.]

This afternoon.

The queen returned to the Chuxiu Palace with a tired look on her face, raised her hands and waved away, sat in front of the dressing table and took off her phoenix crown, and then untied two rhinoceros horn buttons, revealing a snowy neck that looked like a white jade pillar.

She is usually the most polite person, and she rarely behaves like this even when she is alone in private.

Now I am slightly out of character, all because of my encounter in Qianqing Palace just now.

Emperor Longyuan had always had a short temper. After summoning Jia Yuanchun to his bedroom, he said straight to the point that now both she and Rong Guofu were guilty, and the final outcome would depend on how she behaved next.

Then he gave Jia Yuanchun the memorials that needed to be dealt with, and ordered him to sort out the priorities and context, and then make a summary as concisely and straightforwardly as possible.

The Queen was originally dragged aside by Emperor Longyuan as a counselor, but when it came to discussing major and minor matters in the court, she rarely had a chance to get in the way - even though Jia Yuanchun had tried his best during this period. Despite taking care of her emotions, she still gradually became an outsider.

This made the queen very disappointed.

This is no wonder for her. Although she has the title of Lord of the Sixth Palace and is the emperor's undisputed wife, she has never experienced the true love of husband and wife. That is to say, the emperor has been bad at acting in recent months. Having to rely heavily on her, the couple finally showed some mutual affection.

But today...

Although the queen also felt that she should not be so narrow-minded, she still couldn't help but feel frustrated, as if she had lost a treasure that originally belonged to her.

She stared at her pretty, slightly haggard face in the mirror, raised her hand and pinched the center of her eyebrows hard, trying to use the pain to dispel the inexplicable loss in her heart, but the effect was obviously unsatisfactory.

"Alas~"

She sighed and stood up from the embroidery pier, wandering back and forth in the room aimlessly. Her eyes inadvertently fixed on the mahogany box covered by a brocade handkerchief in the corner.

She didn't know why, but she suddenly had the urge to open it and take a look.

After hesitating for a moment, she found two keys and placed them side by side in front of the wooden box like a sacrifice. Then she carefully picked up one of them, took a deep breath, reached out and unscrewed the first lock, and then took it out from inside. A slightly smaller inner box.

Whenever she took this step in the past, she would be extremely panicked and would have strong resistance to retreat.

But today, the panic is still there, and the fear and resistance have strangely disappeared.

So much so that the speed at which she opened the second lock was three minutes faster than the speed at which she opened the first lock.

When the two memorials came into view, the queen took a deep breath again and slowly but firmly reached into the inner box.

The moment she touched the cover of the memorial, she felt that her fingertips were wet and slippery. The first year she thought: No, this memorial is damp!

But soon she realized that the moist feeling actually came from her fingertips, and not only her hands, but also her smooth forehead was unconsciously sweating.

The Queen swallowed unconsciously, and tremblingly took out a memorial from the inner box and placed it on the table. She clasped the side of the cover with her thumbs. She obviously only needed a little force to open it and read it, but she always felt that the cover was heavy. More than ten thousand kilograms.

This was exactly where she stopped last time.

but……

The queen bit her cherry lips lightly, and finally opened the final 'seal' tremblingly.

Different from the last time when she read everything at a glance, this time she read it word by word from the very beginning, catching a glimpse of everything that happened in the Night Soul Hall.

After a long time.

The queen's eyes rested on the last line for a long time, but she could not break away from the simple but detailed text.

This is really...

It’s a shame that Jiao Shun could do it and write it!

However, despite being shocked, she also slightly changed her view on Jiao Shun. After all, judging from the description in the memorial, it was obvious that Jia Yucun secretly forced her husband into prostitution, and that Mrs. Mei took the initiative to show off her coquettishness in order to save her family, which led to the scene in the mourning hall.

…

But it’s just a slight change!

Even if it is passive, it should not be...

At least not...

But she said that she was criticizing Jiao Shun in her heart, but suddenly she heard a report from outside: "Your Majesty, the virtuous concubine is asking for an audience outside the palace."

The queen was so excited that she almost threw the memorial away. Then she quickly closed the memorial and put it back into the inner box. While locking it, she said in a particularly sweet and charming voice: "Please wait outside the palace, I will do it right away."

…”

Halfway through the sentence, I suddenly felt something strange about me, and hurriedly changed my words: "I, I'll be out in a minute!"

This so-called moment actually made Jia Yuanchun wait for more than two quarters of an hour.

After finally waiting for the queen to come out of the inner room, Jia Yuanchun hurriedly stepped forward to pay homage and said: "Thank you so much for your help!"

The queen avoided it slightly, waved her hand and said with a smile: "What does this have to do with me? If you want to thank Jiao Changqing, you should also thank Jiao Changqing. If he hadn't spoken kindly for you in front of your majesty, your majesty would not have made up his mind to summon you so quickly."

When she mentioned the word 'Jiao Changqing', her smile became a little unnatural.

Fortunately, Jia Yuanchun was not surprised when he heard this, so he did not notice it.

Yuanchun really didn't expect that this time it would be Jiao Shun's credit.

After all, according to her previous speculation, the last time the emperor showed mercy outside the law should have nothing to do with Jiao Shun. However, after the incident, this person pretended to take the credit, which shows that he cannot be trusted.

And the reason why she didn't expose this matter was just because the strength of the two sides had reversed, and she didn't want her family to have trouble and provoke powerful enemies.

However, now that they are compared, she is afraid that she is judging a gentleman with a villain's heart. If Jiao Shun really still misses his old relationship, she might as well try to let him take over the role of his uncle [Wang Ziteng] in the future, both internally and externally.

There might be some correspondence between them.

Jia Yuanchun came here just to express his gratitude. Now that he knew the inside story, he still complimented the queen before resigning and leaving.

After sending her away, the queen immediately ordered the maid to fetch a basin of water, but refused to let it go into the inner room. Instead, she took it in her hands.

After returning to the house, she couldn't wait to lock the door, put the basin of water on the table, took out a pair of pants from under the pillow and stuffed them into the water. Seeing that she was soaked inside and out, she finally relaxed.

He sighed, and then slumped down on the chair as if he was exhausted.

It took quite a while.

She gradually regained her composure, turned her eyes to the mahogany box again, and spat softly, thinking to herself that she was being completely ridiculous today, how could she do such a thing?

Thinking of what she had just seen, she couldn't help but spit. No wonder His Majesty said that there were lies in it. The description in it was really exaggerated.

but……

He had already truthfully reported to the emperor even those things that could instantly ruin a person's reputation and cause him to be dismissed from office. Why would he go out of his way to lie about it?
Chapter completed!